Anthony Lawson
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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:02 am Post subject: Robert Fisk: An Admission Wrapped in a Question |
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From an article headed:
The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
by Robert Fisk. The Independent Wednesday, 19 March 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-only-lesson-we- ever-learn-is-that-we-never-learn-797816.html
| Quote: | | How did the people... not rise up in rebellion when told the lies about weapons of mass destruction, about Saddam's links with Osama bin Laden and 11 September? How did we let it happen? |
Even though he is one of the more honest journalists, Robert Fisk cannot avoid some of the responsibility when he asks: "How did we let it happen?" The answer being that the journalists and commentators who must have either known or had suspicions regarding the lies being told about the three items he lists, particularly 9/11, never wrote or produced a single incisive article or documentary to warn "us", with the exception of Andrew Gilligan, whose revelations about Dr. David Kelly's assessment of the WMD situation, in Iraq.
Dr. Kelly was subsequently murdered.
The BBC journalist, and Greg Dyke, the Chairman of the BBC, got off rather more lightly, only losing their jobs: Gilligan for getting it right in his reporting of what Dr Kelly was trying to get across—which was almost exactly what Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors were saying—and Dyke for being in charge of the BBC when Gilligan slipped some truths past the Westminster Department of Censorship’s sub office, at Broadcasting House.
I cannot believe that Robert Fisk and a dozen other "respected" journalists could not have known the facts about this, but they let the British prime minister, Tony Blair, off the hook. Now we learn, from the Times of January 10th, 2008, that Blair is to take a job with JPMorgan Chase, the international financial services and investment banking group.
His salary: a half a million British pounds! Over $1,000,000 at today's exchange rate. That's roughly $1 each for the estimated one million people who died because of his lies.
Who says crime doesn't pay?
Anthony
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